[News] Java-based Open Source Project Grows, Sun Promotes Open Source in IndiaTerracotta Forms Global Partner Network
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| The solution is offered as a free download from Terracotta's open source
| community, Open Terraccotta. There also a commercial Terracotta cousin
| offered through the corporate site, which comes with support and updates.
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=21122
Sun jumps in as well.
http://press-releases.techwhack.com/11937/code-for-freedom/
They at least get people to recognise non-proprietary software.
...

[News] Open Source Company Grows Bigger, Doubles StaffCompiere is on the move - again
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| Compiere, a provider of open source ERP and CRM software, announced this
| week that it has relocated its headquarters from Portland, Ore., to
| Santa Clara, Calif., and plans to double its staff.
|
| [...]
|
| "...We're seeing strong growth rates for open source skills outside of the
| first world due to lower barriers to entry. Open source [also] makes it
| easier for developing countries to pursue information technology."
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/2120212&from=rss
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[News] SourceForge Starts Open Source Contest; Open Source Software Comes to SOA; Open Source Content is Like a BabyOpen Source Community Honors Its Best and Brightest
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| The second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards build on the
| resounding community interest and success of the inaugural awards.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0275543.htm
Bringing Open Source to SOAs
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| Although large commercial vendors made early strides into the market for SOA
| software, open-source components are rapidly finding their way into the
| picture.
|
| Vendors such as Iona Technologies, Red Hat, MuleSource, WSO2, Sun
| Microsystems and even IB...

[News] Open Source Gains Momentum, Stanford Opens Open Source LabOpen source on campus: The Stanford Open Source Lab
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| Over the last few months, open source has gained momentum at Stanford
| University in the form of the Stanford Open Source Lab. Inspired by groups
| like the Free Software Foundation, Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab,
| Drupal, Openflows Community Technology Lab, and MIT’s Open Course Ware, a few
| people at Stanford decided to band together and dedicate their time and
| energies to the development of free/open/libre learning and knowledge
| resources.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/02/12/open...

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Google Chrome's Kimono Opened--A Little
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| Stephen Shankland from CNet has an interesting item up today about the very
| first non-Google coder getting an invitation to add code directly to the open
| source browser project. In a blog post, Evan Martin, a software engineer at
| Google, nominates University of Warsaw computer science student Pawel Hajdan
| Jr. to move from "contributor"--submitting patches and the like to the Chrome
| team--to "committer," working directly on the browser's code. The n...

[News] Open Source Database Vendor Grows, Opens New Development CentreOpen Source Database Company EnterpriseDB Opens Software Development Center
In Pune, India
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| Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research
| company, recently reported that open source databases will continue to
| gain traction over closed source databases as the features and
| functionality of the open source offerings improve and as enterprise
| adoption of open source databases continues. In the same report,
| Forrester estimated the open source database market to be US$300
| million and forecasted its likely growth to US$1 billion by 2008.
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http:/...

[News] Open Source Fabrics and Open Source FabricationApparel export to India: Exporters want open source of raw goods
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| Country's readymade garment exporters yesterday sought 'open source'
| of textile fabrics and sweater yarns to export six million pieces of
| apparel items to India on preferential tariff rate.
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http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_34455.shtml
3-D Fabrication Goes Open Source
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| Undoubtedly, the main attraction of the system is that it is open
| source, meaning that anyone can enhance and improve the system for
| the benefit of all users. This is in stark contrast to...

[News] Open Source Development and Open Source FraudsOpen source is a development model
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| "As a development model the GPL and other licenses offer the
| possibility of more rapidly creating network effects around software.
| Linux has extraordinary network effects. Open source can create a
| community of developers and users who in turn create features that
| make software more sustainable...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=875
I have been seeing the following for a while (dozens of press releases) and
thought the same thing as BTL.
Intalio makes disingenuous claim that it has released code as open source
,-...

[News] Open Source Database Contributes to Open Source IDEIngres Announces New Developer Bundle for Eclipse Users
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| Ingres Corporation announced the availability of a new Ingres
| Eclipse Bundle for Java developers worldwide. The new bundle
| contains all of the components needed to successfully build
| and deploy next-generation applications with Eclipse, a popular
| open source development framework, on Ingres 2006, Ingres's
| latest release of its open source database.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=276
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Customers versus users: a distinction
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| He is of course right that most enterprise adopters would not care about an
| openness index, and in fact such a thing could actually cause more harm than
| good by confusing potential adopters. However enterprises were not the
| potential audience that I (or I believe MTG) envisioned for what MTG called
| the Equitable Open Source label.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/05/21/customers-versus-users-a-distinction/
Here are some brand-new example of very weak 'o...

[News] Open-source Intelligence and Open Source Mashup ServerOpen secret: spy agencies reject essential sources
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| Many intelligence officers still do not have access to the internet, they
| say, and the six intelligence agencies still do not have a functioning
| electronic system for sharing information.
|
| The information revolution has given the agencies access to masses of "open
| source" intelligence, especially on the internet.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/open-secret-spies-snub-prime-source/2008/03/01/1204227055173.html
New Open Source WSO2 Mashup Server
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| WSO2, the global open so...

[News] Fake Open Source versus Real Open SourceWhen open source projects close the process, something's wrong
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| Twice in recent weeks open source projects have surprised me with their lack
| of openness. In both cases, developers acted or spoke out in such a way as to
| intentionally push other developers away from their work.
|
| [...]
|
| The root of both problems is an unwillingness to commit to a truly open
| development process.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/120635
Sounds like some certain "Free" project from Canonical. More on that soon.
Related:
Using open source as a marketing ploy
,...

[News] AlfreSCO Open Source Grows UpAlfresco to stretch ECM to social computing
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| Enterprise content management (ECM) could be set for some big changes when
| open-source firm Alfresco later this month releases an upgrade that will
| integrate with social computing tools such as blogs, wikis and social
| networks to change the way firms organise and syndicate their content.
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http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2204503/alfresco-stretch-ecm-social
Formtek and Alfresco Partner to Introduce Open Source Enterprise Content
Management...
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| Formtek and Alfresco Partner to Introduce Open Source ...

[News] Open Source and BMC Talk About "Open Source"Open source @ Intel: Dirk Hohndel speaks
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| "Intel contributed to many of the very early free software projects like gcc
| and glibc, and of course has been an active contributor to the Linux kernel
| for many years. I don't think we actually know which project was the first."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9754202-16.html
William Hurley: Managing In The Open
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| Color BMC not surprised. Last week we launched our BMC Developer Network to
| open our community to the world. This week we launched an additional customer
| council for custo...

[News] A Shift in Mindset from Open Source to Free Libre Open SourceDoes Open Source Licensing Matter?
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| While the title of the panel was "Why Open Source Licensing Matters," panel
| moderator Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco, said
| it does matter, though maybe not for all the people on this panel. Asay
| recently helped to move Alfresco from a SugarCRM-type attribution license to
| the GPLv2.
|
| Though the panel didn't agree on the value of OSI-approved open source
| licensing, it did agree on the value of the open source model.
|
| "Open source as a community matters," Asay ...

[News] Trend Micro Praise Open Source, Go Open SourceTrend Micro CTO hints that Trend will Open Source Code
,----[ Quote ]
| In a stunning revelation in Trend Micro: Open source is more secure,
| Trend CTO Raimund Genes hints that Trend may release their code as
| an open source project!
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http://blogs.technet.com/security/archive/2006/06/14/435960.aspx
...

[News] Open Source-hostile Companies Bet Business on Open SourceYahoo sets program to boost distributed computing
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| Yahoo has been a main supporter of Hadoop, an open source distributed file
| system that lets users process massive amounts of data. The company said it
| would make Hadoop available to academic research in a supercomputing-class
| data center.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWNAS201020071112?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
http://tinyurl.com/39o5qm
127 million Oracle shares vote for open source at annual shareholders meeting
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| While seemingly a lot, 127 million shares d...

[News] The Importance of Open Source Interoperability; Open Source Wins AwardCan Technology Be Made To Play Nice Together? Really?
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| Customers today have proprietary software and they have open source software.
| Customers just want it all to work together. This dream is becoming a reality
| as companies and projects in both the commercial and open source space are
| working together to solve the interoperability challenge and bring a solution
| to one of the biggest pain points for customers today.
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,25,site_layout,sdaindia,articles,587,p,0.html
We need one standard, not 'translators'.
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Official launch of the Open Source Observatory and Repository for European
public administrations in Malaga
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| The European Commission Directorate General for Informatics (IDABC) organises
| its Open Source Software Event 2008 on 20 October in Málaga, in the Spanish
| Region of Andalucía. It is organised with the regions of Andalucía and
| Extremadura in parallel with the Open Source World Conference. It is the
| fifth edition of this event and it is estimated a total participation beyond
| 6,000 attendees.
...

[News] Open Source Advantage in Digital Signage, Open Source Fakers Join InOpen-Source Technology in Digital Signage
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| Open Source and Free software have transformed the software business. Instead
| of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and getting locked in, we have
| been given freedom. Freedom to be our own equipment's boss; freedom to share;
| and freedom to benefit from cooperation and hence from what thousands of
| others have already done.
|
| Many Digital Signage providers use Open Source both in the products like
| Media Players, and to run their operations cost-effectively. By doing so,
| they can concentrate on our “re...

[News] Open Source for Books, Open Source Magazine, and Java on Linux (Digest)Creating ebooks with open source tools
http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/07/18/152227.shtml?tid=130&tid=132&tid=138
welcome to o3 magazine
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| The focus of o3 is on the use of Free and Open Source (FOSS) software
| in Enterprise Data Networking environments.
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http://www.o3magazine.com/
Homepage of Java on Linux
http://www.blackdown.org/
...

[News] Insoshi Goes Open Source, Social Networking and Open Source ConnectedSocial Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi
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| Insoshi is not the first company to release its social networking code.
| Broadband Mechanics has always emphasized the openness of its
| PeopleAggregator platform, and even Ning, the most publicized DIY social
| networking company, will give you the underlying code if you request it.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/29/social-networking-goes-open-source-with-insoshi/
Social Networking and Open Source: Cut From the Same Cloth
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| However, social and open source are starting to actually blend -- where...

[News] Open Source Winner for Voting Machines, More on Free Open Source AdvantagesUS/Canada Team Wins Voting Machine Competition
,----[ Quote ]
| Chaum later developed his own system, Scantegrity, from the same concept used
| in Punchscan. Scantegrity is fully open source (in Java). Chaum says the
| system is easy to implement with current optical-scan voting systems, thus
| reducing costs and the time it would take to get the voting system certified
| and implemented in election districts.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/us-team-wins-vo.html
You're never alone with Plone
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| Ask Plone users what they like best about the open-sour...